Wipers staying on

[nigel]

Got another electrical problem my wipers will not turn off,
All I did was clean the fuse and put it back because the keep stopping and with the storms we are having I need them to work but its damn annoying to go from stopping to will not stop.

[sonscar]

My wipers did this once,the parking switch mechanism in the wiper motor gears broke and the motor is peculiar to only TR7 and Stags I was advised.Refurbed seemed stupidly expensive for such a small component failure so I spent an enjoyable few hours making a repair piece of metal which operated the parking switch.Steve..

[FI Spyder]

Parking switch could be out of adjustment. Switch position can be adjusted with mechanism in car as motor can be pulled out abit and switch position adjusted. A little one way then the other if that doesn't work. If the little tab is broken some times they can be repaired. I had cracked mine while I had it out and soldered it. It didn't take so I reinforced it with a strip of copper from plumbing strap and resoldered it. Been working 7 years now.

- - -TR7 Spider - - - 1978 Spitfire- - - - 1976 Spitfire - - 1988 Tercel 4X4 - Kali on Integra - 1991 Integra - Yellow TCT

[nigel]

i took the cover off the motor and found the copper arm that moves the nylon block to the off position had snapped off. I have soldered it back together and the problem solved.
Thanks for your advice that got me to start at the motor, I was going to start at the switch so this has saved me hours of testing.